It is most commonly known as Osage orange, but other names include hedge, hedge-apple, yellow-wood, bowwood, Osage apple, and bodark (from the French bois d’arc, meaning bow wood).

Most notable among those is the wood of Maclura pomifera, otherwise known as bois d’arc, hedge apple, or Osage orange. Its wood is very dense, and it burns quite slowly, but it’s a light show ...

Hedge (a.k.a. Osage orange, a.k.a. Bodark, a.k.a. horseapple) is a thorny problem, but also a remarkable resource, if you have the means to use it.

The yellow-orange fresh wood color gradually ages to a deep reddish brown. Osage-orange may have had more favorable treatment as a wood for many uses were it not for the tendency of the tree to fork, ...

Osage orange is exceptionally hard and strong. The bending strength (MOR) is over 20,000 psi (50 percent more than red oak). Hardness is around 2000 pounds (100 percent more than red oak).

Freshly cut Osage-orange wood is a vibrant yellow. The color mellows into a rich brown with age. Woodworkers use it for musical instruments, bowls, knife handles and other specialty items.

But the Osage orange is perhaps best known for its use as a hedgerow fence before the invention of barbed wire in the 1870s. “The trees have an interesting branching pattern and they also have ...

The softball-sized fruits of the Osage orange may have evolved to be eaten by extinct megafauna, and their wood is ideal for making archery bows and warm fires.

The Osage orange (Maclura pomifera,) also known as a “hedge-apple,” is a small deciduous tree with simple alternate leaves, twisted branches and a wide-spreading profile.

The wood has been used to make ornamental bowls and trays because it’s beautiful orange colored grain can be polished to a glass like sheen. However, the wood has no major commercial value.

Osage Orange Tree To Be Distributed In Wood Lottery Thursday Wednesday, March 27, 2013 The Chattanooga Department of Public Works will conduct a wood lottery on Thursday, at 10 a.m.